Graphite Pencil Portrait
The AKVIS Sketch plugin allows converting any photo into a pencil sketch. The most popular subject for a sketch is a person. You can often see street artists offering to draw a portrait for those who want and showing hand-drawn portraits of celebrities.
A pencil portrait can be a good present for your relatives and friends.
Open a portrait photo with your photo editor. We have chosen a black and white portrait of John Travolta («Pulp Fiction» 1994, «Get Shorty» 1995, «Broken Arrow» 1996, «Face/Off» 1997, «Swordfish» 2001).
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John Travolta.
Photographer: Andrew Eccles.
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Call the AKVIS Sketch plugin and run it with the default parameters by pressing the button  . The After window will show the resulting pencil sketch.
Adjust the plugin's settings.
- Step 1. Increase the value of Size in the Strokes field on 1 unit. The strokes on the drawing will get wider and blurred on edges.
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| Stroke Size = 8 |
Stroke Size = 9 |
- Step 2. Set the parameter Watercolor to 30. As a result the hard strokes on the face, hand and the background turn into light shadows.
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| Watercolor = 0 |
Watercolor = 30 |
- Step 3. Reduce the value of the parameter Midtones Hatching from 100 to 85 to make the hatching of the light areas of the portrait (the face, the hand and the background) less pronounced.
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| Midtones Hatching = 100 |
Midtones Hatching = 85 |
- Step 4. Increase the value of the parameter Sharpen to sharpen the contours as the portrait is a bit too blurred.
Apply the result by pressing the button  in the plugin's window.
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— Graphite Pencil Portrait